51 points

And around 70% of all online players are on those missing 2% :D

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I mean we have tons of anticheat games working on Linux. More than people realize. Elden Ring, The Finals, Overwatch 2, CS2, Apex Legends, xDefiant and more that I can’t remember right now. It’s not that bad even as a multiplayer gamer. The ones that don’t work R6S, Val, LoL, Fortnite, CoD and Destiny pretty much.

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Oh i know we do, i’m on linux since years, but still the biggest titles are not enabled for linux.

Have been playing LoL for an eternity and can’t play it anymore. (couldn’t be happier but that’s not the thing we’re talking about lol)

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Which is a really positive thing.

:D

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6 points

Basically all the popular multiplayer games, meanwhile Linux gets the scraps.

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7 points

No, just the competitive ones. I’ve played plenty of multiplayer games on Linux without issues.

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6 points

apex legends is pretty competitive and works great.

its the asshole multiplayer games that wont work.

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5 points

Yeah, quantity over quality right here. If my favourite game doesn’t run on Linux, Linux is dead to me. Even if I had 5 favourite games and 1 doesn’t work, it’s still dead.

So for a lot of people it’s either 100% or it might as well not exist.

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3 points

If a game doesn’t run on Linux I can’t even try it. No risk of it becoming my favorite game!

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33 points

These metrics mean nothing to me

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Proton is steam’s compatibility tool, these “medals” basically indicate how well a game works through it. Platnium and gold mean work without troubleshooting. Silver means a little tinkering with settings. Bronze means it can work with effort, and borked means it just doesn’t work.

So, 84% working with 0 effort, and 11% working with light tinkering.

The post is kind of incomprehensible if you’re not already familiar with proton and the troubleshooting website proton DB.

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12 points

It’s also not a great metric if you don’t know what games the dude regularly buys especially if they’re already a*nix user

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11 points

i mean, basically everything works so long as it doesn’t use certain anti cheat systems. But knowing what they play would have been more useful for the sake of discussion.

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25 points

Linux must achieve 100% compatibility. Otherwise the doubters will not shut up.

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Windows also does not have 100% compatibility. Try playing something like age of wonders 1 on current windows. I could run in out of the box on steam deck but not on my pc that at the time had windows 10. I think Windows no longer has compatibility with win 98 and lower but i might be misremembering.

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8 points

This is true I wanted to play magicka 1 with friends but he couldn’t launch it on his windows pc while I could launch it without any problems on Linux

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14 points

Eh they’ll find something else to whine about

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8 points

to WINE about

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4 points

Eyyyyy (╭☞´ิ∀´ิ)╭☞

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13 points

The lazy companies developing anti-cheats will likely not allow that. Some games even refuse VMs, it’s incredibly stupid.

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12 points

XBOX must have 100% of games available on Playstation. Otherwise nobody will ever switch.

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25 points

Ah, the hallmark of mainstream usability: a four bar chart with multi-segmented portions based on different independent ratings of compatibility that don’t agree with each other.

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3900 games here.

I guess it’s time to switch to Linux finally.

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